Arthur Leywin POV:
Darkness was everywhere.
I was floating in an ocean of reflection-less black. There was nothing else in sight; only infinite, abysmal of bone-chilling darkness. Yet oddly, I didn't feel any cold. Nor did I hear, smell, or even taste anything in this...nothing-space.
Weird. I thought. Where am I?
Last thing I remember was...fighting someone. No, more than one, very strong as well. Did I die? I wasn't sure, I couldn't remember no matter how harder I tried.
That helpless, frustrating thought, seems to do something as the space in front of me started to distort. A wave of panic hit me—if I could even feel such an emotion inside this empty void—before I hurriedly floated away, to put some distance as something...red, appeared out of the distorted space.
It vaguely resembled a burning red star.
The red star, was just a tiny spec in the vast black universe, yet it felt so much more than what it looked. As I was pondering this, the blood-red speck started to wriggle like a living organism, then vibrate—before...
*BOOM*
What the—
The space in front of me expanded outward in a sudden haste, waking up a nimbus of red in its path, as it started decaying—eating away—at the blackness. Soon the red was dominating the black. But the expanding cloud of red suddenly stopped, and retreated to coalesce, and solidify into a large dark silhouette.
'No...' I thought dreadfully, as a realisation struck.
A figure formed out of the blood red silhouette and soon rose up. And, so did my anxiety and fear.
Suddenly, I felt it all in my core. The thumping of my overly-beating heart. The quickening of my breath. The trembling of my body. I felt like I couldn't breathe at all—looking at the figure.
I knew who it was. He was the reason I became me, I became Arthur. He was also the reason I died, my friends died, my...father died.
Agrona Vritra, the Eternal Ruler of Alacrya, stood in front of me. His form constantly expanding, his broad shoulders towering over me like an untameable mountain. His blood-crimson eyes burned a hole into my very soul, as he looked at me like I was nothing, like I was an ant that he could step on and crush anytime he wanted.
Suddenly I felt insignificant, and worthless under his oppressive, and overwhelming force of power and presence.
A sinister smile appeared on his featureless face, as if he had read my dreadful thoughts. It turned into a grin, sending a jolt of chill down my spine. His titanic form started to move; his giant arm shot towards me with a speed that shouldn't have been possible with its sheer size. A large hand covered my whole vision as it started to engulf me in its vast clutches.
Feelings of desperation, doom, and death, filled my fibers to the brim, making me sink and drown into it all. I felt unable to act, unable to move—to do something—anything, to escape his sickly clutches.
Red was everywhere. I felt trapped, powerless, and helpless all at once.
As I was losing myself and my will, something started to change.
My eyes caught a movement from its corner. Pure, white light reflected and popped into existence like stars, all around me. They soon multiplied and grew, clashing against Agrona's red as they fought for a battle of dominance.
White seemed to push back the red, calmness winning over the raging oppression. And soon, I was able finally to breath, released off from Agrona's hold.
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